The limnoterrestrial diatom flora of the sub-Antarctic islands is characterized by a high level of regional endemic taxa.As a result of recent taxonomic and mor
Girdle features, especially number of septa and open or close nature of separate bands were widely used as taxonomic characters for species discrimination withi
Skeletonema is a common and word-wide distributed diatom genus and is a very common red-tide organism in coastal waters.However, morphological identification of